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Mike Leifer
Mike Leifer

New York Times, Wednesday, January 23, 1974

39-Across : Restore, as a ship

Author:
Mike Leifer
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.31, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 287 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 76, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Mike Leifer has 2 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,929
Across
1
Made a bridge call : PASSED
7
Disagrees : DISSENTS
15
Very high : ALPINE
16
Savings-book entry : INTEREST
17
Item in a dish set : TEACUP
18
Nautical freeloader : STOWAWAY
19
___ party : HEN
20
21st Amendment : REPEAL
22
Miffed : SORE
23
Self-punishment : PENANCE
24
Title for a woman : MRS
25
Passenger : FARE
28
Skillful : DEFT
29
Hebrew month : BUL
30
Eavesdrop : OVERHEAR
32
Stair part : RISER
34
Sapphire, e.g. : GEM
35
Like a John Doe defendant : UNNAMED
37
Diving bird : AUK
39
Restore, as a ship : REFIT
41
Stuff's partner : NONSENSE
43
Dah's partner : DIT
44
Run quickly : SCUD
45
Pale : ASHY
46
Metal mold : PIG
47
Disbeliever : ATHEIST
49
Source of coke : COAL
50
Sad, in Paris : TRISTE
51
"___ du lieber!" : ACH
54
Word on a theater curtain : ASBESTOS
56
Guarantee : INSURE
58
Kind of pronoun : RELATIVE
59
Stableman: Var. : OSTLER
60
Ushered in : PREFACED
61
Required : NEEDED
Down
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War or cow : PATH
2
Toward shelter : ALEE
3
Spic-and ___ : SPAN
4
"___ transit ... " : SIC
5
Harden: Var. : ENURE
6
Income-tax deduction : DEPENDENT
7
Deprived of a right : DISENFRANCHISED
8
Unimpaired : INTACT
9
Mink item : STOLE
10
Do mending : SEW
11
Dutch theologian : ERASMUS
12
Saints' city : NEWORLEANS
13
Emperors : TSARS
14
Eyelid trouble : STYE
21
Song of praise : PAEAN
23
Word with diem or cent : PER
25
Air-travel snarler : FOG
26
Affirm : AVER
27
Capable of being restored : REMEDIABLE
29
Invites : BIDS
31
Eight, in Marseilles : HUIT
32
Interpretation : RENDITION
33
"Fools ___ in ... " : RUSH
36
Grimaces : MOUES
38
Solution : KEY
40
Attire in Eden : FIGLEAF
42
Use up : EAT
44
Tried hard : STROVE
46
Tough problem : POSER
47
"Toys in the ___" : ATTIC
48
___ of duty : SENSE
49
Complain : CARP
51
New Year song word : AULD
52
Canadian Indian : CREE
53
Do sheep-dog work : HERD
55
Depot: Abbr. : STA
57
Anne or Marie: Abbr. : STE

Answer summary:
3 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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